Kentucky step closer to requiring hospitals to report superbugs

4:02 AM,
Mar. 15, 2014

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A health watchdog group fighting to reduce superbug infections is in talks with Kentucky health officials, hoping to hammer out rules that would require hospitals and nursing homes to report cases of the dangerous bacteria CRE to the state.

"We would like to see this deadly and virtually untreatable bacteria to be publicly reported," said Dr. Kevin Kavanagh, board chairman for Health Watch USA, a Somerset-based nonprofit. "We're pursuing regulatory and statutory means of doing that."

Kavanagh said discussions with representatives of the state Cabinet for Health and Family Services ...